Platform Engineer

Grayscale is the largest digital asset-focused investment platform in the world by AUM and offers the broadest selection of digital asset investment products in the U.S. based on number of products.

Our platform spans the full spectrum of institutional-grade solutions—from single-asset exposures to diversified and thematic strategies—with a goal of providing every investor with access to the hyper-expanding digital asset universe. Our firm offers a rare combination of decades of traditional finance work experience and digital asset leadership that brings an institutional mindset to the maturing digital asset industry. This convergence of capabilities positions us to deliver investment solutions and client experiences that are both institutionally robust and technologically advanced, which we believe offers a competitive edge that is difficult to replicate.

We’re proud of our deep crypto expertise and work closely with individual and institutional investors as they explore this asset class as part of their portfolio allocation.

Grayscale Investments is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to join our Engineering team and own the AWS platform that underpins all of Grayscale's technology delivery. You will lead cloud initiatives end to end, including account and environment foundations, new environment builds and migrations, developer self-service, reliability, and cost governance. This is a shared enabling role. Your work will make every squad faster by giving them secure, observable, and repeatable paths to production.

You will partner closely with engineering leads, architecture, and cybersecurity to build a modern, well-governed cloud environment. This role reports into the Head of Engineering and works closely with our Lead Architect.

We utilize AWS as our cloud platform, structured through AWS Organizations and Control Tower, enabling scalable and secure infrastructure. Our infrastructure is managed using Terraform, and we are increasingly adopting containerized workflows alongside serverless services such as AWS Lambda. We rely on Git Lab for our CI/CD processes. There is significant opportunity to modernize our cloud posture, accelerate developer productivity, and build an internal developer platform.

• Lead AWS cloud initiatives end to end, including new account and environment builds, workload migrations, and platform modernization
• Own the AWS landing zone and account vending model so new teams, products, and environments can be stood up quickly and consistently
• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, Docker, and related IaC tooling
• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines in Git Lab to ensure smooth, secure, and efficient software delivery
• Embed security, compliance, and governance into the platform by default, partnering with the Head of Cybersecurity on controls, ITGC evidence, and audit readiness
• Lead Fin Ops practices, including tagging, cost visibility, Savings Plans, rightsizing, and cost tradeoff recommendations to leadership
• Own platform reliability, including observability, SLOs, DR and multi-region patterns, capacity planning, and incident and on-call practices
• Build golden paths and reusable Terraform modules that let squads self-serve infrastructure, pipelines, and environments
• Ensure high-quality infrastructure delivery through strong collaboration with product, engineering, and security
• Set architecture standards and technical direction for cloud and delivery, in coordination with engineering leadership
• Evaluate and integrate platform tooling and partners, including build vs. buy decisions
• Stay current on industry trends and emerging technologies in cloud infrastructure, Dev Ops, and platform engineering
• Mentor…